Brae's First Day!!

Well, the time finally came. We sent our little "Peanut" Braelyn to preschool for the first time on Tuesday. I will never admit to losing sleep the night before because I was worried about her. (Ok, guess I just did admit to it) :) But this was a big step for her! She has been in an in-home daycare since she could remember. She's not used to a bunch of other kids, or a teacher. But she ended up doing great. No surprise right!?

It started with her little preschool's Open House last Thursday. She was all prepared with her school supplies and backpack. She was very excited to meet her teacher. She kept saying that she wanted to go to the "teacher's house". She's quite sure that the teacher lives there. She even talks about the playground at the teacher's house. The Open House went great. Gwendolyn went with us too and they were both in awe of the little sink in the classroom where they could both climb up on the stool and reach the faucet ALL by themselves. They thought this was the coolest thing ever! Here is a picture of Braelyn and her daddy at open house.

So after being there last Thursday and seeing all of the wonderful toys she would get to play with (not to mention the magical sink), Braelyn was raring to go on Tuesday when it was time to get up for school. I asked her when she woke up where she was going that day and she said, "See the teacher!!!!". I dressed Braelyn in her "first day of school" outfit, (yep, I'm THAT mom), and she looked so darn cute and grown up!

 I then took her over to my mom's house as she is the one taking Braelyn to school on the days that she goes. We took lot's of pictures to commemorate the "big" day. Here are a few. Does she look ready?

I had to talk her out of taking her "twins" with her to school.

My mom said she was a bit timid walking in, but did sit down at the table to color with the other kids. But when it was time to go sit on the carpet she wanted nothing to do with it. Apparently the teacher was really good with her though and carried her over to join the group. My mom, being the good, understanding, former teacher that she is, knew that was probably her cue to sneak out. Braelyn later told me that, "Grammy  got lost from her". Your guess is as good as mine as how the rest of the day played out. I do know that she ate her sandwich and her grapes from her lunchbox, but not her goldfish crackers and little cookie. :)

Our wonderful Miss-Tracy picked Braelyn up from school. She said the teacher told her the only problem Braelyn had was panicking and being a bit overwhelmed with all of the kids on the playground. But, that seemed to pass quickly and all was fine. Miss-Tracy was awesome and called me at work so that I could talk to Braelyn about her day. The first things she said were, "My teacher is soooooooo nice and soooooooo pretty!" When I asked her what she did all day she said, "I read books and I go potty!!" ;) When asked what her favorite part of her day was she said, "the hippo". Who knows. ;)  

So, Braelyn said she is definitely ready to go back on Thursday. Now we can't wait until Gwendolyn starts her new school the first of October! I'm SURE I won't lose any sleep the night before right? 

One of the other goings-on over here at the Castellano house was the celebration of Daddy's birthday. We celebrated over at Grammy's house with cake. When I asked Chuck what he wanted for his birthday he said that he just wanted to do something with the girls. (such a good daddy) So, I bought us all tickets to go and enjoy the Ringling Bros. circus as a family next month. Should be fun to watch the girls enjoy their first circus!

This was a pretty Braelyn filled post, so I had to add a pic of my quirky Gwenner too. :)